Leghorn

[leg-hawrn, leg-ern, -hawrn]

noun

1. English name of Livorno.

2. (lowercase),  a fine, smooth, plaited straw.

3. (lowercase),  a hat made of such straw, often having a broad, soft brim.

4. one of a Mediterranean breed of chickens that are prolific layers of white-shelled eggs.

Leghorn

¹

noun

1. the English name for Livorno

2. a breed of domestic fowl laying white eggs

leghorn

²

/ ˈlɛɡˌhɔːn /

noun

1. a type of Italian wheat straw that is woven into hats

2. any hat made from this straw when plaited

Word History and Origins

Origin of Leghorn¹

C19: named after _Leghorn (Livorno)

Example Sentences

William Carlos Williams, “Anna Karenina,” Katherine Anne Porter, “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Cats,” Foghorn Leghorn: all get shoutouts here, a collective distress call that fails to move us.

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The Kipnis family has Italian citizenship through a paternal grandmother who hailed from Leghorn and moved to Israel, via Tunisia, after the Holocaust.

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“Bantam White Leghorn, from the sound of it.”

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Oh, and there’s the detective Benoit Blanc, Daniel Craig’s Southern detective, along for the ride to solve for x with his distinctive Foghorn Leghorn bray and spoilery self-satisfaction.

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Daniel Craig plays Benoit Blanc, the master detective with the Foghorn Leghorn accent who is once again summoned by rich eccentrics to solve a mystery.

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